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Dumuzi’s Wedding 2.12’-22’:
Inanna at her mother’s bidding bathed in water, anointed herself with sweet oil, decided to put on for outer garment the grand queenly robe; she also took her man-beast amulets, was straightening the lapis lazuli stones on her neck, and held her cylinder seal in her hand. The young lady stood waiting - Dumuzi pushed (open) the door, and like a moonbeam she came forth to him out of the house. He looked at her, rejoiced in her, took her in arms [and kissed her].
Homer, Iliad 14.166-189:
So she went her way to her chamber, that her dear son Hephaestus had fashioned for her, and had fitted strong doors to the door-posts with a secret bolt, that no other god might open. Therein she entered, and closed the bright doors. With ambrosia first did she cleanse from her lovely body every stain, and anointed her richly with oil, ambrosial, soft, and of rich fragrance; were this but shaken in the palace of Zeus with threshold of bronze, even so would the savour thereof reach unto earth and heaven. Therewith she annointed her lovely body, and she combed her hair, and with her hands pIaited the bright tresses, fair and ambrosial, that streamed from her immortal head. Then she clothed her about in a robe ambrosial, which Athene had wrought for her with cunning skill, and had set thereon broideries full many; and she pinned it upon her breast with brooches of gold, and she girt about her a girdle set with an hundred tassels, and in her pierced ears she put ear-rings with three clustering drops; and abundant grace shone therefrom. And with a veil over all did the bright goddess veil herself, a fair veil, all glistering, and white was it as the sun; and beneath her shining feet she bound her fair sandals.
Homeric Hymn 5.86-91 (to Aphrodite):
And there were necklaces of great beauty about her soft neck, fine, golden, and intricate; and like the moon it shone about her soft bosom, a marvel to behold. Anchises was seized with desire.
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Dumuzi’s Wedding 2.12’-22’
Homer, Iliad 14.166-189
Homeric Hymn 5.86-91 (to Aphrodite)
Bibliography
| West 1997, 203-204 | West, Martin L. The East Face of Helicon. West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997. |
Amar Annus
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